/ec
The entropy calculator - alias ec -, analyzes a password and calculates its entropy. Entropy calculator requests are billed.
- password (query, required) — **The password to be analyzed.** Minimum length is 4 characters; maximum length is 128 characters. Beware that certain characters like '#', '=' or '?' must be properly encoded. For more information about this issue, please refer to RFC 3986 ("*Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax*"), sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4.
- outputFormat (query) — **The format of the returned analysis.** Allowed values are *json*, *xml* and *yaml*. The default value is *xml*.
- penalty (query) — **The penalty applied to each character that is part of a word, number sequence, alphabet sequence, etc.** The penalty is a float number in the range [0, 1]. Full penalty, 0; no penalty, 1. The character used as decimal separator is always '.'. Hence, a parameter value like *0,33* would be illegal. The default value is *0.25*.
- reqId (query) — **An identifier for this request.** The request identifier is a string that must match the regular expression */(?i)^[a-z0-9]{8,16}$/*. This identifier is echoed in the returned response. Its value has no effect on the password analysis. If this parameter is unset, a randomly generated identifier will be automatically assigned to this request.
